Powder Magazine Blues

[Woodsy]

I thought your wife shaved?

[Snow Dog]

While we're on the subject, why can't I buy Powder magazine in Canada? A copy or two shows up now and then but it's like there's 10 copies for the entire country. It's easier to find Couloir magazine. It's easier to find Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine and that's been off the air for 3 years.

[Booger]

Powder did that decades ago, and it worked so well, they started a whole new magazine. They called it Snowboarder.

The real battle is convincing companies that skiing is a year-round culture (like surfing and snowboarding) and not just a winter pasttime. This board goes a long way to show that. With companies like quiksilver buying in, it's getting better. Interestingly, Skiing as a participation sport is a lot more popular than surfing. But there aren't a lot of malls in Oklahoma carrying K2 t-shirts. Every single one carries Roxy, though.

Yeah....Which is exactly how Al Merrick makes the bling bling...t shirts in midwestern malls.


I totally agree with your post KD which is completely contradictory to Hal Clifford's Jekyl/Hyde, flawed book "Downhill Slide" where among other weak arguments, he claims year round resorts are killing the industry- he couldnt be more wrong- although i know your referring to more of the sport iteslf and not ski towns.

I just read that book last month and he does make some spot on points (I grew up in one of the ski towns he occaisonally mentions) but I felt like I was reading 2 books- the first had to do with ski towns and legitimate issues but then it seemed like The Sierra Club (who is the publisher) read his final draft and made him change and reapeat a bunch of crap to make it more polarizing in an attempt to reach a wider audience.